Australian Taxpayers’ Lavish Funding of the Warming Scam

While warmists are always looking for and inferring vast sums of business funding devoted to the sceptics, the annual total is a matter of mere millions, a tiny percentage of that lavished on the promoters of global warming and emission reduction policies.

Jo Nova has a blog on the US government budget expenditure on promoting the issue and subsidising low emission alternatives. For the five years ending the sum total was $68 billion. Much of this was under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. US spending other than ARRA amounts to about $8 billion a year.

In yet another example of plucky Australia “punching above its weight”, in an economy less than 10 per cent the size of the US, the Australian Government is this year budgetted to spend $2.7 billion. As a share of GDP that is 3-4 times what the miserly Obama Administration spends!

In the good old days when the Rudd/Gillard Government was was keen to triumphantly parade its intended wasteful spending in pursuit of measures to ameliorate global warming and its associated floods, diseases and famines, the Climate Change Department used to add up and publish the expenditure numbers – albeit even then it understated expenditures by not including deaprtmental overheads or ad hoc spending by Departments like Treasury.

Nowadays this has to be retrieved from examinations of Budget documents. For 2012/13 the breakdown of the numbers is:

Department

Budgeted Spending 2012/3 ($M)

Agriculture

96

Climate Change

988

Foreign Affairs

140

Infrastructure

9

Industry

293

Energy & Resources

627

Sustainablility & Water

589

Total

2742

And the Australian numbers exclude the $20 billion of taxpayer’s money to be spent, borrowed or provided in guarrentees for non-fossil, non-nuclear energy under the Clean Energy Fund.

I have a cunning plan,take the money from groin shit and foreign effersand put it into .health and infrastucture. Close universities establish collages of health.engineering a nd real science ,put the money saved intotrades education that mught work.

I have a cunning plan,take the money from groin shit and foreign effersand put it into .health and infrastucture. Close universities establish collages of health.engineering a nd real science ,put the money saved intotrades education that mught work.

1)Rafe – We already have an FOI in at the moment regarding salaries in the Department of Climate Change

2)BRC – Yes I agree, it is something we should do; I also suspect that there’s more funding hidden away that isn’t in the budget documents listed above. In anycase, I think per family/household is the better way of looking at things than per taxpayer (and I think $2.7b works out at about $335pa?). We’ll try to look into the detail of the data soon.

The figure should be broken out not just into the amount per person, but how much per person in the private sector as it’s only these that generate the cash in the first place.

It’s like the UN saying that $30bn of the $100bn they’re looking to raise in their climate fund should come from the private sector. Where do they think the public finds come from? Thin air?

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